Will Fly wrote:-

Without publicity no-one will know who the devil you are. How would I know what goes in Sussex without being able to look up the Sussex Folk Guide?
If no-one paid for an ad in the Guide, it wouldn't exist - and we'd all be none the wiser!

Strictly speaking, Mike, NOBODY pays to get an ad in the Sussex Folk Guide. I know, because I am the one that compiles it - and I don't get paid for the several hours it takes me each month to put it together. I do it as a labour of love because I am passionate about the music.

Now, all the adverts are taken from the paper magazine that I share the editing of, The Folk Diary, where you do have to pay for your adverts. Sometimes, I get people approaching me with info asking me to include it in the listings website. I explain to them that this listings are taken from the magazine and is considered a free extra service for advertisers and that if I gave free listings to everyone, we might not have a magazine. I sometimes give these people a a one-off listing depending on the merits of each case.
Several Sussex-area newspapers and other listings websites lift their listings directly from the paper copy of The Folk Diary; we send a copy to each of our newspapers in and around our area.